nikki.lol

This site has gone through a few changes recently. Which is a result of me thinking about what I want this site to be and how I want to stop focusing on trying for polished content here. There is this concept out in the circles I follow called “learn in public”, and I originally came across it from Swyx a few years ago. Ultimately, this site is purely for me, and I intend to allow my imperfect, incorrect thoughts to show up here. I want to see how my thinking changes over time. Already I can see this in my past journal entries, how I once felt small, looked for approval in others’ opinion of me, and reacted emotionally to that events in my life. Now, I see those attributes falling away, being replaced with a more calm, easy, simple self, still learning not to be caught up in the maelstrom of the simple, hard act of being a human.

In that interest, I am putting up the site in its imperfect form. Not all the styles are correct, layouts are imperfect, and I am just going to continue working on this. Instead of keeping a running list, written on scraps of paper and post-it notes littered around my desk, this seems like a better place to keep things if I am going to practice learning in public.

¶tasks

¶open

• Review mobile styles.
• Work through the content and update attributes to the new structure.
  • Remove old instances of Wild Mind (my previous domain before I sold it).
  • Add tags and locations to each entry.
  • Upload and insert missing images.
• Can the images load more quickly? Am I using Glide correctly?
• Check site in multiple browsers for compatibility issues.
• Add a Context block to allow me to add an alert at the top of an entry (e.g., “This post is over a year old” or “The following is only an exploration and not to be construed as a verified opinion”).
• Add the ability to switch themes (because I get very bored with the same theme for too long).
• Create tag and locations taxonomy pages.
• Check color contrast of both light and dark themes. I suspect it may not be ideal.
• Refactor font sizes. Should they be bigger? What’s the latest in CSS to manage font scaling and responsive styles?
• Move the header and footer contents to the middle of the screen. On extra-wide monitors, it isn’t as functional as having the links closer to the content area.
• Create a Vim Markdown Fieldtype, where I can get everything that Statamic offers in the Markdown fieldtype and allows me to use my Vim keybindings.
  • This actually may not be necessary since I can write entries in Vim already…
• Create a Humans collection. I have a horrible memory and rely on various methods to remember information about a person, such as personal tastes or birthday. I’ve basically created a chaotic, unorganized CRM, but for friends and acquaintances. Can I pull this functionality into Statamic? Would this be an Addon?
• Create a browser bookmarklet to quickly add a question to the Questions collection without having to navigate to the admin section of Statamic.
• Why do the icons for switching light and dark themes sometimes disappear? Why do I have to reload the browser to get the change to display? Is it a localStorage issue or JavaScript (or both)?
• Add pagination to listing templates.
• Add Previous/Next links and titles to the respective journal entry on single journal entry pages. Or related content links and titles. Place in the footer.
• Create a search page.
• Change the hover link color on the light theme. Looks horrible and has no contrast.

¶completed

• Completed on 2025-05-08: On Desktop screens, move an entry’s footnotes to the right of the main content area inline.
• Completed on 2025-05-09: Add Fathom Analytics to the site (or another privacy-focused analytics platform).
• Completed on 2025-05-09: Make a donation to Phosphor Icons.
• Completed on 2025-05-09: Create a Questions collection. I’ve been playing around with using this site, now that it’s built on Statamic, as more than just a personal blog. I’ve been pondering what a Zettelkästen might look like here in Statamic, and the Questions collection might be a noncommittal way of exploring that.
• Completed on 2025-05-09: Add an RSS feed to the site.
• Completed on 2025-05-09: Style 404 template.
• Completed on 2025-05-12: Can Reading Time be added to the left sidebar? Yes, it can!
• Completed on 2025-05-12: Add visual separation between Table of Contents and Footnotes in the right sidebar.
• Completed on 2025-05-12: Fix the padding issue when footnotes are in the right sidebar. Think it should be li { max-width: 28ch; width: 100% } p { padding: 0 2rem 0 0; } may solve the problem.
• Completed on 2025-05-12: The alignment between Table of Contents and Footnotes in the #right-sidebar is off.